Barnacle geese Branta leucopsis on Nordenskiöldkysten, western Spitsbergen - In thirty years from colonisation to saturation

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 105-114

  Drent, Rudolf H ^a   Black, Jeffrey M ^b,c,d   Loonen, Maarten J J E ^a   Prop, Jouke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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